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salutary

[sal-yuh-ter-ee] / ˈsæl yəˌtɛr i /


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Big picture: The smaller trade deficit in January might have one salutary effect: It could help pad the increase in gross domestic product in the first quarter.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

It will have the most salutary effect in the area of medical diagnostics and devices.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

The overall message to our adversaries is salutary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

Gibbon, no democrat, spent much of his time reading voraciously and carried some English biases and feuds into his writing, but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025

The histories of the Fertile Crescent and China also hold a salutary lesson for the modern world: circumstances change, and past primacy is no guarantee of future primacy.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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